[yorkietalkjilly]

Never head of such drivel as a trainer that would insist on a pinch or choke collar to train a little Yorkie. Training any dog, even a big, powerful dog to leash starts with its head not its neck and starts indoors or the back yard and no one should need a torture device to train a big, powerful dog to leash if done properly unless they want to cut corners or just enjoy that type training. And to insist you need a pinch collar on anything but a big, wild dog to get it from one place to another before you've had time to start any training, is just silly to me. Once you have had some time with a dog, a good trainer should not need a pinch/choke collar at all ever. Anybody that needs anything but a show lead as far as something that goes around the neck or a harness for a dog to walk or train it, is just cutting corners or doesn't know how to train a dog properly. As I say, leash training is really head training and once you've got your dog's head and heart, it's not going to pull that you can't correct the behavior with words or just stopping your walk and giving the dog some commands or your hands if it's jumping around from an extremely unusual provocation such as a cat fight just ahead or something. Placing your hands quietly on the dog - one on the chest and one on the back and a little eye contract will quiet a dog that's gone a little ballistic to something going on around it, kicking its prey drive into overdrive. You sure don't need some type pinching device around anything but a wild dog's neck and you really don't even need it then. And you really will never need something like that on a tiny little Yorkshire Terrier!